#the turnabout terror

[seizethegay420]

[pinkhibiscustea]

a wright side profile that i am literally SO SO SO proud of bc about a month or two ago I had no idea how to draw him let alone men in general </3 I love him so much

[shitpostingkats]

Imagine. You are a cashier at a gas station in japanifornia. A HAWK swoops down, grabbing a plastic package of bean buns from the shelves, then LANDS on the counter. It sticks its beak into its bandana (it is wearing a bandana) and pulls out a wad of bills. Sets the money on the counter. Flies away.

Just as you're recovering from the sheer wtf, the bird flies back in and shows you a drivers liscense and you realize, oh yeah, that has alcohol in it.

The picture on the ID is a scowling man.

The hawk is also in the photo.

He's over twenty one.

You let the hawk go.

[z0mbzii]

Thinkin about this old loser

B/W under the cut :)

[lemontartyellow]

Phoenix insisting that no one else knows the ~real~ Edgeworth but him is deeply funny. You didn’t know him. You didn’t know him back when he was 9 years old.

[wright-anything-agencyisms]

Something I'm thinking VERY hard about is how Starbuck sort of inspired Phoenix to start seeing himself as a mentor to Athena and Apollo. This assumption happened already before with Pearl in 5-6. She assumes Phoenix is Athena's mentor. But it seems Phoenix finally accepts that kinda role after seeing how good of a role model Starbuck was to Clay.

Apollo apparently told Starbuck about Phoenix. I can just imagine Apollo fanboying about him to Starbuck, and then suddenly Phoenix is his boss and he kinda sucks lol. It seems whatever Apollo said, Starbuck seems to assume from that that Phoenix is his mentor. I wonder what Apollo told about Phoenix?

It seems that he's also happy that Apollo has a mentor in Phoenix! (Though the poor guy does not know their relationship is still in repairs from aa4 lol)

That kinda sounds like Athena, Apollo and Phoenix's dynamic. At this point, I think the writer's might've been pushing for a parallel between Phoenix and Apollo and Starbuck and Clay. The game drew attention to Apollo and Clay's voice training, and Starbuck told Phoenix and Athena how Clay's "you're fine!" encourages him.

This clearly connects Clay and Apollo as the protégés- and the fact Starbuck finally convinced Phoenix he got that mentor in him makes me think this is intentional.

And if we're doing literary analysis... If "you're fine!" encourages Starbuck, does it encourage Phoenix too? That would be kinda goofy, especially since Phoenix in this same exact scene seems to be embarrassed by screaming that he's fine lmao

[news4dzhozhar]

[im-still-watching-anime]

playing aa trilogy: look how creepy and unsettling von karma is for taking in edgeworth, he was making nefarious plans from the start

playing aa investigations: he did it because he certainly wasn’t interested in parenting and knew franziska would need a babysitter

[wilted-woman]

first day of law school

[kodapi]

"I love you." //Phoenix ♡♡♡♡

     [ Words of Warmth || Speaking Sweetly » Accepting ]

     ‹ Three words. Those three words were spoken more often lately, words that Shuuji had to learn how to say; he had never been allowed to love before, allowed to be loved. He had spent so long in the shadows that when the sun was made to shine upon him in the form of Phoenix's heart, it baffled him for a time. It was strange, almost intimidating, and yet something he found himself craving until he finally found the courage to return those words and say them for himself. ›

     ‹ Then, it was a matter of forgetting he could say them until there were gentle nudges to remind him he held that privilege. Sometimes written, often spoken, but every single word every time was brimming with genuine love. Unfiltered, unfettered. Today was no different; they were spoken so casually, but with no less adoration than before and certainly no less than those to come later, and it made Shuuji's lips turn up into a brighter smile. ›

     ‹ His koibito. His world. The warmth that cast away the cold shadows that once clung to Shuuji's soul. Phoenix meant more to him than three words could ever express, no matter how many times they were spoken. So today, he clasped Phoenix's hands within his own and pulled them closer until their palms cradled Shuuji's cheeks, held there to feel the warmth that rapidly crept forth from within. ›

    ❝ You make the sun feel pale and cold in comparison to your bright, unfailing warmth. The stars shimmer for you, in the hopes they would ever compare to the sparkle in your eyes. No language this world has ever known or will ever know can ever capture how I feel about you, Phoenix. ❞

     ‹ Slowly one of Phoenix's palms would be adjusted until it rest partially over Shuuji's lips, a soft kiss pressed to the skin as a single tear broke free from the corner of his eye and quickly tumbled down his cheek. Yet his face beamed with joy, overwhelmed perhaps by his own thoughts. ›

    ❝ I love you too. Those words feel so underwhelming for what I mean, but they'll have to suffice. ❞

[cornertheculprit]

I got a lot of issues with SoJ as a whole but man I can't help but love phoenixs design in it (excluding changing his eye color) cuz like they're such minor changes but they feel so major. dunno what it is about that little piece of hair that won't lay down that adds So Much

i guess it's because they make him look older, in a way? more mature in the way you'd expect a Seasoned Lawyer to look like. like you've got the little piece of hair that won't stay down you've got the new waistcoat you've got the golden chain of the locket. overall i think it's a really good design! which, if i'm gonna be honest here, is why i sort of have a problem with it. phoenix isn't a seasoned lawyer! he wasn't even a lawyer for three full years before getting disbarred! and although he was working on the mason system that doesn't exactly. Count. the man was wearing comfy clothes for seven years straight you'd think he'd at least complain a little bit about having to wear a stuffy suit all the time again. it's like i love the suit i love the new look but it just contributes to the feeling that he's acting so extremely Fake

[raurquiz]

#remembering #BarbaraBaldavin #actress #AngelaMartine #startrek #BalanceofTerror #ShoreLeave #ltlisa #TurnaboutIntruder #mannix #Adam12 #CharliesAngels #thebionicwoman #FantasyIsland #Airport1975 #Baretta #BarnabyJones #QuincyME #vegas #Skeeter #startrek58 @TrekCore

[chstart]

bc i will be ajpilled & aa4maxxing tmrrw, yeets this into post format abt nick re kris

i do think phoenix felt legitimately that he had an ally in all the initial hurricane after the gramarye case & the bar almost unanimously voting to revoke phoenix's attorney's badge, because the idea of only one voice in a sea of naysayers supporting him did Not feel out of place, because so often He's been that voice for others (because miles was once that voice for Him). it was not the first time a single voice had broken a unanimous vote for "guilty". he had felt the precedent for "almost"s coming to save him.

it's not until months if not a year or so later when something just ... clicks, & phoenix is has a moment of oh fuck. shit, it was him. it was his fault. but then he gets stuck in that space of, a forgery is bad yeah but it's not Murder or anything, so he can find it somewhere in him to forgive that, even if he was the one hurt by it. because he's forgiven a lot of people a lot of bad things just because he's gotten attached to them, & even if their friendship is built on a lie & is a lie it's still ... there. & they're a part of each other's lives no matter what now. & hey, maybe kris got screwed over in there too, right, because lana committed perjury & tampered with evidence & miles had to present tampered evidence but there were extenuating circumstances beyond their faults, so maybe kristoph is similar right??? right?????? & it's just phoenix wright & his shitty "i can fix them" savior complex against the world again,,,,,

but the more he looks into it, the less he sees it being beyond kristoph's control & then ... the shadi thing happens. & it's just. he could've forgiven the manipulation & gaslighting & the implicating him of forgery & just so much ... but he never expected kris to be capable of stooping to murder, let alone something as raw as bashing someone's head in. so the first night at the detention center is really just spent mostly having his entire world rocked Once Again, because he really didn't ever figure kris out, but he can't focus on that because he's got a trial plan to figure out, so it's only after the trial that he gets to fully just. have a crisis about All That.

[electroniccollectiondonut]

afsjsgaj shoutout to my completely non terror mutual who just liked the hodgtok post

[crickit-song]

One of the most fun and interesting things about the ace attorney games is that all of the main characters are deeply flawed.

From Edgeworth's disappearing/reappearing act in aa2, not to mention literally quoting his own SUICIDE NOTE in COURT:

And then in aai, his acting above the law honestly all the time because his special interest is the truth and he's certain he's the best detective around, which is justifiable but kind of extreme,

To the absolute ASS Phoenix was to Apollo all throughout ajaa, which i don't have receipts for but you remember, and his consistent trend of caustically lying to grown people capable of making decisions because he doesn't want to upset them in the moment (eg, the apollo-trucy-thalassa relation that is still hidden),

To the absolutely horrendous SHIT Apollo pulled during Turnabout for Tomorrow, which includes but is not limited to assisting terrorism (encouraging Aura Blackquill to continue the trial), asking for his close friend and motiveless colleague Athena to be arrested for murder, and leaving his ACTUAL SISTER AT GUNPOINT BY A RADICAL TERRORIST, all because he couldn't handle not having trust for like a day. If he had waited literally a day, the trial would have continued (bc at that point Terrans murder hadn't been solved) AND the TWELVE random people and FUCKING TRUCY could have escaped the space station!!! But nooo, polly, do egg on the murderously radicalized Blackquill sibling who spent years hating an actual child SURE GREAT IDEA.

Even the secondary characters have no concept of normal, with simon blackquill being a convicted death row inmate for most of dual destinies, Athena having enough trauma to kill a horse, trucy and maya with abandonment issues, pearly dealing with everything morgan and dahlia did, and Lana and ema's whole thing, not to mention the von karma fiasco.

Honestly the most normal person in all the games is klavier, who is a world famous pop star with an insane and violent serial poisoner as a brother.

I love all the characters in this game, nick and miles are my blorbos, and I adore nearly everybody else, but damn if this game doesn't make some extremely flawed little guys. Ask my parents or friends, they'll tell you how angry I got at points, lmao.

And i haven't even played SOJ or TGAA yet. I should probably be worried.

[lemontartyellow]

It’s one thing to insist that someone you knew for three months when you were 9 would never intentionally murder someone, but it’s truly a whole new ball game to insist that same person would never ever *accidentally* murder someone.